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Personality Disorder Workshop: The Complete Clinical Toolkit with DBT, CBT, Schema Therapy and More

Personality Disorder Workshop: The Complete Clinical Toolkit with DBT, CBT, Schema Therapy and More

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Boundary management issues, transference and countertransference dynamics, intense emotions, and drama.

Clients with personality disorders can push you to confront your own limitations and triggers…even make you question your own abilities as a therapist.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

This 2-day training is specifically designed to provide you with the skills, techniques, and insights you need to tackle cases with clients who have BPD, narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality, and more.

You’ll join expert therapist Katelyn Baxter-Musser. She’s trained thousands of therapists on a variety of clinical topics – and she’s helped clients with personality disorders achieve positive treatment outcomes for over a decade.

And now she’ll share all she’s learned to provide you a framework so you can confidently and effectively treat these clients… whether you’re already working with them or tackling your very first case.

Katelyn will make treating clients with any of the 10 personality disorders feel more doable than you ever thought possible, complete with hands-on exercises and real case studies, highlighting the most effective and evidence-based clinical tools in the field.

When you register, you’ll get:

  • Tools from CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy, and other top treatments
  • Details on working with trust, attachment issues, and fear of abandonment
  • Boundary management strategies
  • Practical skills to improve regulation and expression of intense emotions
  • Real-life case studies that make what you’ve learned more accessible
  • Safety plans for self-harming, suicidality, and substance use
  • And much more!

Don’t miss this chance to confidently work with personality-disordered clients.

Register now!

Here's What You'll Learn


Personality Disorders in Clinical Practice

  • Deconstructing misconceptions, professional biases, and stigma
  • Prevalence and presentation
  • Distinguishing between personality traits and personality disorders
  • Co-occurring disorders, SUDs and suicidality
  • Invalidating environments and their impact on PDs
  • Exploring the link between attachment and personality disorders
  • Neurobiology and personality disorders
  • PDs across the lifepsan
  • Risk and protective factors

Assessment Tools and Getting an Accurate Diagnosis

  • Screening and assessment tools
    • SCID-5
    • Personality Disorder Interview-IV
    • Standardized Assessment of Personality – Abbreviated Scale
    • MMPI-2
  • Critical factors for accurate diagnosis
  • Personality disorder cluster characteristics and core features
  • Avoiding misdiagnosis: surface and core structure
  • Culture influence and personality disorders
  • Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders

Evidence-Based Treatments for Personality Disorders: How CBT, DBT, Schema Therapy and More Fit into Your Treatment Plan

  • CBT for healthier coping strategies and problem-solving skills
  • DBT tools to regulate emotions and improve interpersonal relationships
  • Schema Therapy: challenging maladaptive patterns and core beliefs
  • MI, EMDR and other modalities
  • Medications and personality disorders
  • Integrating treatment approaches for each cluster
  • Research, risks and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

Cluster A Personality Disorders: Clinical Interventions for Treating Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Clients

  • Empty chair techniques to help clients process anger
  • DBT skills training for problem solving and assertiveness
  • Exercises to help clients test their suspicions and question their thoughts
  • Schema therapy techniques to help identify negative thoughts
  • Group therapy to improve communication and interpersonal skills
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction as a mean of coping with stressors
  • Overcoming transference reactions

Cluster B Personality Disorders: Best Practices for Treating Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic Clients

  • Interventions to increase sense of personal responsibility for conduct
  • Working toward appropriate sharing of feelings and vulnerabilities
  • Managing deceptiveness in therapy
  • Exploring history of conflict with authority and themes of abandonment
  • Safety plan for self-harming, suicidality and substance use
  • CBT strategies to shift from catastrophizing thoughts
  • DBT interpersonal effectiveness skills for aggressiveness
  • Schema therapy for distorted thoughts of grandiosity and entitlement
  • Overcoming transference reactions

Cluster C Disorders: Working with Avoidant, Obsessive-Compulsive and Dependent Clients

  • Keys to forming a therapeutic alliance
  • REBT to identify and replace distorted perceptions
  • Role playing relevant social skills
  • Identify, explore and process thoughts of shame
  • Working with hypercritical schemas
  • Exposure therapy to reduce perfectionism
  • Assess for clients’ dependency patterns
  • Activities that boost self-esteem and encourage independence
  • Therapist countertransference

Maintaining Professional Boundaries: Decreasing Burnout and Practicing Self-Care

  • Common signs of burnout
  • Setting boundaries
  • Professional Quality of Life Scale
  • 5-minute self-care exercises

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • Up to 12.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT

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Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Maine where her areas of expertise include domestic violence, abuse, trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, personality disorders and relationship issues.

Her clinical experience includes working for ten years in various roles as a case manager, child and family therapist, and trauma therapist for several agencies and Native American reservations. Ms. Baxter-Musser served as the Trauma Healing Services Clinical Coordinator for La Frontera Arizona, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention and support to families and individuals facing domestic violence, abuse, hate crimes and other issues.

Ms. Baxter-Musser is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and EMDR. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Crisis Management and EMDRIA. She sits on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and part of the Southern Maine EMDR Coalition.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Katelyn Baxter-Musser is the owner, operator, trainer of Inner Awakening Counseling & Consulting and receives royalties a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Katelyn Baxter-Musser is a member of EMDRIA, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Crisis Management, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
PESI and Katelyn Baxter-Musser are not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

 

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059908
Duration:
12 hours, 9 minutes
Copyright:
Aug 08, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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